Re: [Marxism] Iran crackdown

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just because the United States government has publicly announced
it is actively funding dissident groupings in a major project to 
destabilize the Iranian government should have no influence when
thinking about these events. The Iranians have no reason at all
to think that Washington would want to overthrow a government in
that country, would they? They must be completely irrational and 
we should discount any such notions. Time to crank up the noisy
campaign against "radical Islam" right about now, isn't it? 
God isn't great, says Christopher Hitchens.


Walter Lippmann

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ROBIN WRIGHT reported:
The Bush administration's $75 million fund to promote democracy in Iran 
is the key reason for the recent arrest of several dual U.S.-Iranian 
citizens in Iran, including D.C. area scholar Haleh Esfandiari. Iranian 
analysts contend that the U.S. funds have also made civil society 
movements targets because of government suspicions that they are 
conspiring to foster a "velvet revolution" against the regime.


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WALTER LIPPMANN
Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
writer - photographer - activist
http://www.walterlippmann.com
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